It would seem to follow, that if a group pursues it's goals by attacking opponents with axe handles, that it would only be a matter of time before one of their targets has his own axe handle and is coming after them. Reading this article, I wondered if Huntingdon, or any of it's peripheral "targets", has considered hiring its own thugs with axe handles (perhaps that may account for the corporate move to New Jersey)......

I am sort of surprised by the number of responses to this article by animal rights advocates. Did you find this article because you are regular readers of Salon, or were you linked to the article by an animal rights blog, perhaps, or what?

I am a liberal who is not an animal rights advocate, and I have never considered animal rights advocacy to be any part of a liberal agenda, nor should it be. I suspect that most, but not all, would agree with me on this.

Sure he's incompetent. But at his core, George W. Bush is a crook.

From what I can tell from the Texas Parks and Wildlife website, quail season in both North and South Texas ended in January. I don't know that this was a "canned hunt" with purely farm raised birds, but if it was perhaps they are not bound by the legal seasons.

The hunting season info can be found here.......

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/season/2006/animal_listing/#quail

What I found objectionable in the video was the latter part, with all the obvious and probable fabrications about dairy cattle. I realize that in a very complex world, we must often invest our trust in others to assess the state of things, and to issue to us a report of what the facts are. Folks of all levels of intelligence can at times invest their trust in a source that is not worthy of the investment.......Sean Hannity is one unworthy source. PETA is another.

You are using vegetarian and vegan interchangeably, and I, for one, don't react the same way to both terms. Vegan seems to connote a militant vegetarianism, advocacy for the animal rights thing, and support of PETA and similar organizations. I react negatively to that. Being a "vegetarian" does not carry the same meaning, and my reaction is not negative.

I don't know what a "soft vegan" is, but it seems like an attempt to call yourself a vegan without exactly calling yourself a vegan. Just call yourself a vegetarian and let it go at that.

I agree that Mr. Wilkow, if he answered authentically, would probably opt to save the small child, and sacrifice the petri dish. That said, it would probably leave his head ringing with dissonance. But it's not really all about the numbers. Faced with similar dilemmas, all of us would weigh the alternatives using more factors than numbers.

If Mr. Wilkow were asked whether he would save one teenaged boy, or five old men who could not remember what they had to eat for breakfast, or whether to save one republican or five democrats, he might believe that all are living organisms with as much right to live as any other and still choose to save the teen and the republican and feel that he made the best choices that he could have made under the prescribed conditions. So I think that Mr Wilkow could go ahead and say that he would save the small child, and he could reasonably defend his choice without being made to look like an ass. I suspect that he could handle that on his own......

Americans spend less, as a percentage of their incomes, for many categories of expenses (groceries, paper products, internet service) than do those from countries with less per capita income. One has to be cautious in drawing conclusions from that type of data.

Several letters have expressed the idea that as demand for organic foodstuffs increases, prices will go down. This seems to be against the conventional wisdom, but is probably true as long as additional, especially larger, suppliers are drawn into that market.

In most areas of organic produce, as I understand, supplies are already dominated by a few extremely large California corporations. I would expect that prices here might even increase with additional demand.

In some areas like milk, the entry of the large Horizon dairy in organic milk production resulted in a significantly cheaper product. However, smaller, established organic dairies responded by calling for alteration of organic standards to some form that Horizon could not meet, and thus keep the prices at least as high as the present. I think that as of now this issue remains unresolved.

So I'm not real sure that these lower prices will materialize.......I think that there are many factors involved.

W will never be found in Crawford Texas after retirement. The "ranch" will be sold at a handsome profit to oil industry patrons. W and Laura will be found in Dallas, Houston or on the east coast. Can you imagine the twins making the club scene around Crawford and Waco?

This year the Wichita Falls, Texas, Times/Record News dropped Ann Coulter's column due to her consistently nasty screeds that they could no longer justify printing in their newspaper. I wish that many more media outlets would follow their example........

The "proliferation" of CAFO's in the last 20 years, and the rise in pollution from CAFO's, is almost totally due to the growth of large scale confined hog operations.

Also, I think that "factory farm" has become an extremely muddled concept. It is used in different ways by different writers. Most writers, including Ms. Little, do not make it clear what their usage of "factory farm" means. It has gotten to where I no longer think that this is a useful concept at all.

Excellent post, Mr.Greenwald...........